CloudMade Connected Car Solutions

CloudMade is an established pioneer of location-based technologies that enable bold new user experiences, from smartphones to wearables to the connected car. In its early years, CloudMade was pioneering new ways for location services to be incorporated into websites and mobile apps, going beyond the typical concepts of maps, navigation devices, and early social media “check-in” services. Now, CloudMade works with the world's leading automotive and consumer electronics OEMs to help them deliver mobility experiences that are truly remarkable.

CloudMade co-founder Nick Black, one of the earliest driving forces behind OpenStreetMap, and CTO Jim Brown, both work directly with the Cogniance team of end-to-end software product development experts, that span across design, architecture, development, QA, implementation, operations, and scaling.

“Cogniance is the engineering department for CloudMade,” says Black. “They are completely integrated with our in-house operations, to the extent that we have quarterly planning and brainstorming off-sites with the whole Cogniance team.” Cogniance also is involved directly in CloudMade marketing and sales opportunities, and Cogniance manages the CloudMade website.

“CloudMade’s success depends on our ability to rapidly launch new products that deliver real value to our customers and their end-users, and to continually innovate,” says Black. “The Cogniance team provides the bridge between our business goals and the fruition of those goals.”

Netpulse Digital Fitness Platform

Enhancing and maximizing your fitness experience

Netpulse integrates technology, media and fitness into one experience, with the ultimate goal connecting, engaging and entertaining the active-lifestyle community. Some of the biggest names in commercial equipment manufacturing have chosen to align their products with the Netpulse technology, including Life Fitness, Technogym, Star Trac and Octane Fitness.

Netpulse came to Cogniance to assist them in building the Netpulse One platform — a best-of-breed fitness application that would enable fitness clubs, trainers and active-lifestyle consumers to efficiently collect fitness data for both analysis and future access. Netpulse knew that Cogniance not only offered a multidisciplinary team across all the expertise required but also had the passion needed to bring this concept into fruition. Additionally, the Cogniance team jumped at the opportunity to play a part in building innovative technology that they knew would allow them to directly benefit people’s lives.

“We chose to work with Cogniance because of their stellar reputation and their talents across all the technologies that we required to realize the Netpulse One platform.

Their dedication and passion for the project was beyond what I expected and our work together can only be defined as a partnership”

—John Ford, SVP of Product, Netpulse, Inc.

The Netpulse-Cogniance partnership started at the very beginning with the elaboration phase, where we held an extensive session to discover the needs of our customer and subsequently carry out the information architecture and design. Understanding their business goals allowed us to plan and effectively execute the engineering phase of the project — J2EE backend, AngularJS rich web application, ObjectiveC and Java native mobile apps for iOS and Android respectively. The platform was built to collect information via native integration with the C++/QT and Android based consoles on cardio equipment, as well as with 3rd party integrations with devices and apps like Fitbit and Runkeeper. We also provided QA, Product management and Project management services to ensure an on-time, on-budget and on-spec delivery.

The completed Netpulse One platform is a comprehensive digital solution that provides users with an interactive, immersive on-the-go club-branded experience. We capture the data from all of the clubs’ cardio equipment and interface with third-party apps and tracking devices to seamlessly integrate them into the club’s ecosystem. Netpulse One keeps each club at the center of their users’ fitness experience with tools like goal setting, workout tracking and fitness challenges that drive club engagement and support their users’ dynamic lifestyles. Participating clubs are provided with a club-branded website, a club-branded mobile app, digital signage and a single user ID that works across all of the clubs’ cardio equipment. Together, Cogniance and Netpulse have created the Netpulse One platform that truly represents a synergy between technology and the active lifestyle.

Libratone Award-Winning Wireless Speakers

Reinventing speakers for the 21st century

Libratone is an award-winning audio company that believes in design and in freedom, and whose goal it is to liberate music for the ultimate listening experience

Cogniance is supporting their vision by providing industrial design and packaging design expertise, driving the efforts to launch their next suite of market-leading wireless speakers.

This implies working closely with both the Libratone audio engineering team, to ensure that the final products look as great as they sound, as well as the manufacturing partner, to ensure that the limit-pushing design can be produced at the expected quality and scale.

Alcohoot Smartphone Breathalyzer

Leveraging your smartphone to become a smarter drinker

Alcohoot is redefining what our mobile devices can do and has developed the world's first smartphone breathalyzer device. According to Alcohoot Chief Product Officer, Jonathan Ofir, their device aims to address a serious gap in the market by promoting smart drinking with an appealing solution that seamlessly integrates with users' highly mobile social lifestyles. The two main goals of their Alcohoot device are: reduce the number of drunk driving accidents in the world and make breathalyzers an instrument that is socially acceptable to use in everyday situations.

Alcohoot approached Cogniance to utilize our expertise with embedded technology to connect their breathalyzer device with smartphones. Specifically, Cogniance was responsible for developing a complementary mobile application that would act as an essential bridge between the hardware device and users' highly mobile lifestyles. As clearly stated by Jonathan, 'It was important for us to create a product that enhanced the user's drinking experience.'

The Cogniance team was excited to play a role in realizing this innovative idea and we provided our skills and expertise in the following areas: project management, software engineering and QA. In order to develop a mobile app that would connect to this hardware device we had to overcome the challenge of decoding and encoding algorithms that would both transmit and accept binary data from mobile device headphone output and input. In addition, we provided integration with third-party Google Maps and Google places API to allow for easy navigation to nearby restaurants and access to UBER taxi services.

The completed Alcohoot mobile application has gained top ratings on both App stores and recognition from top publications including Forbes, The New York Times and TechCrunch. Users are able to track and find trends in their drinking consumption patterns, call a taxi with one touch and easily locate open restaurants within walking distance.

Expensify Expense Reporting Made Easy

Simplifying and streamlining expense reporting

Expensify was founded by David Barrett in 2008 with a dream of ridding the world of the frustration of expense reports and now they are well on their way to conquer expense reporting, one happy user at a time. With fast growth, and the need to roll out key features quickly, Expensify turned to Cogniance to leverage a skilled team that was able to plug into their current architecture, and help develop & maintain key, back-end systems.

VP of Core Engineering Tony Zakula says, "Working with the Cogniance team is a real pleasure. They are more than a partner, they are our friends." Expensify is well known for its cutting edge technology and being a market leader and Cogniance is proud to play a key role.

Tongal Creativity Set Free

Setting creativity free by connecting creatives and brands

Tongal is the world’s first studio on-demand – a platform that connects businesses in need of creative work with an always-on network of writers, directors, and production companies who deliver it. Tongal's platform facilitates video content by crowdsourcing creative work through collaborative contests. The completed Client Portal allows brand owners and users to setup and manage their projects easily on their own via each project’s personal dashboard. The portal additionally acts as a seamless collaboration tool for Tongal’s admin team and users, and for the project management team and their project's statistic page.

Tongal came to Cogniance to help them create a Client Portal that would enable their users and brand owners to setup and manage their contests independently. Additionally, they wanted to automate the previously manual process of creating campaigns.

In order to implement the new Client Portal, the Cogniance team worked with Tongal through several stages, starting with Elaboration, where we reviewed the current website UI and outlined the project scope. After this, we provide UX design, development, QA and product and project management services.

Beanstock Media Publisher Trading Desk

Enabling online publishers to manage and optimize advertising yields

Beanstock Media is the world’s first premium Publisher Trading Desk. Together we created the Helix™ platform — a cloud based yield management system that uniquely exposes each ad impression to all available demand sources at once. Buyers have complete access to inventory and sellers get maximum value for each impression.

Beanstock Media partnered with Cogniance to help them develop a web UI for their Helix console that would allow ad publishers to easily configure specific ads for their sites. We also helped enable the platform to provide ad event capture with near-real-time data aggregation, analysis and reporting.

In order to implement the web UI, Cogniance was responsible for integrating with 3rd party ad exchanges, as well as defining categories and demography. To implement the data aggregation features, we needed to address the need for flexible scaling to allow for the substantial volumes of incoming data, and the required computation optimizations for the huge number of dimensions of data to be aggregated.

Xtime Dealer Management System

Transforming the ownership experience for automotive manufacturers and dealership service departments

Xtime is a leading provider of a cloud-based Customer Retention Management (CRM) and scheduling solution to automotive companies across North America. They work with over 3,000 dealerships and are the preferred provider for premier companies including Toyota, BMW and Mercedes-Benz.

Xtime's CRM system provides the positive service retail experience that consumers expect by integrating all the customer service touch points into a single exceptional user experience. Their unified system caters to service marketing, service scheduling and service check-in for both consumers and service personnel.

Xtime engaged with Cogniance because they wanted to develop a Dealer Management System (DMS) integration platform to enable their CRM solution to be adopted and customized for their expansive customer base. The main challenge of this engagement was to ensure real-time data synchronization with various external data providers, as well as the development of a universal solution to ease and speed up future integration efforts.

Cogniance provided Xtime with services in software architecture, development, QA and project management. Our teams were responsible for supporting the integrations for existing dealers, implementing a process for DMS agents to adapt the Xtime system API and proposing a scalable, fault tolerant back-end architectural solution for rapid integration with new DMS agents.

The finished Xtime DMS integration platform is a back-end solution that enables real-time data synchronization for Xtime's online scheduling product suite. The platform supports certified communication for some of the leading DMS providers including ADP, AutoMate, DealerBuilt, DealerTrack, Pentana, R&R and Serti, and has many more integrations coming soon.

Magellan Cloud-Enabled SmartGPS

Combining GPS device innovation and the power of the cloud to bring a connected car experience to everyone

With over 200 key patents in GPS technology, Magellan has been heralded a leader in portable consumer GPS navigation since its founding in 1986. They continue to strive to live up to their reputation as an industry innovator and consequently recognized that in the current age of smartphones and social media, it was not sufficient for media navigation devices to just be relevant, they now also needed to be engaging.

Magellan brought Cogniance on board to assist in the development of their new SmartGPS. Specifically, Cogniance was involved in the development of the Magellan Cloud Services, which have performed flawlessly since launch.

The resulting SmartGPS is a game-changing navigation solution consisting of a slick GPS device, cloud services that are fronted by a web portal, and companion smartphone apps. Together these let users seamlessly share and wirelessly sync addresses, route plans and favorite places between their devices. SmartGPS not only delivers real-time navigation data such as traffic, weather, camera locations and fuel prices, but also lets users take advantage of social content, like Yelp deals and Foursquare reviews. The Magellan SmartGPS has proved so engaging that it won an Innovation Award at CES 2013.

"The work packages completed by Cogniance were first-rate and enabled us to bring a compelling new portable GPS device rapidly to market," commented Stig Pedersen, Associate Vice President, Head of Product Management at Magellan. "Even better, their staff are a joy to work with."

Joust Real-Time Gamification Platform

Enabling social gamification of sports, entertainment, politics, and more

Joust is a first of its kind, real-time gamification platform that connects users with content and their friends through fun challenges, contests, polls, surveys, predictions and competitions about virtually anything. Joust works with a growing number of leading broadcasters, publishers and brands — providing turn-key, branded integrations that allow them to easily add in all Joust functionality to their digital properties. Joust enables its customers to both deepen engagement with their existing audience and attract new viewers and users by tapping into the inherently viral nature of predictions and competitions.

Joust integrations cover all major sports, world politics, entertainment and much more, including customer integrations with X-Games on ESPN, Are You the One? on MTV, The Bachelor and Dancing With the Stars on ABC, NFL Pick’em contests for the Houston Chronicle and Chicago Sun Times, golf contests with Callaway, boxing contests with Golden Boy Promotions and many more.

Joust came to Cogniance with a product vision of creating a social gaming platform that would be compelling to users and could easily be customized for various brands and publishers. They needed a cooperative and efficient team to quickly bring this platform alive with a unique recipe of game mechanics and social technologies.

Cogniance contributed to the project with our front-end and back-end development services, DevOps, QA and Project Management. We were responsible for creating a solid HTML5 solution that would render consistently across all modern platforms and browser versions, maintaining and updating legacy code and cooperating efficiently with other distributed teams. The architectural expertise of Cogniance team made it possible to drive through the database migration of the live application and evolve the system infrastructure.

About Cogniance

Juha ChristensenChairman & Founder

Juha is a serial entrepreneur with a remarkable track record in both Europe, the U.S. and Asia. Building mobile operating systems during his early career, he founded Symbian, went on to lead the charge in the early days of Microsoft’s Smartphone and Pocket PC efforts, ran part of Macromedia, helped build Teleca into the largest System Integrator in the mobile industry, and worked on popularizing Trolltech and Qt.

Today his focus is on building and scaling innovative tech companies like Cogniance, CloudMade, Pelican Imaging, Buttonwood Financial, The Pad, WeVideo and Brandworkz.

Michael ShraybmanCEO

Michael is a seasoned leader within the world of global management and
innovation consulting, with years of experience designing and implementing
solutions for early-stage, growth, and Fortune-size companies spanning a
multitude of industry and solution domains.

Michael’s passion is for seeing great ideas make it into rapidly scaling,
commercially successful ventures.

Sergii GorpynichCTO

Sergii is a lifelong technologist, passionate about the ways technology enriches human lives. He was an integral member of Cogniance's original founding team and currently runs the entire engineering branch of the company.

Sergii's career has developed from being a software engineer to a team leader and business technologist. He's currently focused on exploring the newest technology frontiers, and working with our customers to solve their
product development challenges.

Kristian KroyerCreative Director

Kristian works by the philosophy of designing from the heart by always looking to add value to the modern user's life. He does this by ensuring that his products seamlessly bring together design and technology.

Marty McFarlandCFO

Marty is a proven CFO with over 30 years of progressive experience, having managed accounting and finance operations for companies from startup to $300 million in revenue, and with extensive international experience including China, Europe, Russia, India and Israel.

His experience includes CFO positions with technology companies Packet Motion, Kasenna and CAD Solutions. He also was Corporate Controller for Harmonic (HLIT) and worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Join Our Team of Passionate Problem-Solvers.We are growing fast and always looking for great talent.

Join Our Team of PassionateProblem-Solvers.
We are growing fast and always looking for great talent.

Senior Android Engineer
Kyiv, Ukraine

General Description

You will be responsible for designing and creating Android application for mass-market. Our main priorities are well organized processes that guarantee a good quality and high speed of development. Our multi-skilled team is involved in all aspects of product development — starting from gathering requirements and continue with design, architecture and development. Working tightly with clients you’ll learn all aspects of clients’ business domains, make decisions and recommend the best technical solutions.

MacOS Software Engineer
Kyiv, Ukraine

General Description

The brand-new project from the industry leader in document management solutions.

You’ll develop new application from scratch that will operate with documents in electronic forms, integrates with multiple backends and services.

Required Skills and Experience

3+ years experience in developing software for Mac OS

Good knowledge in GUI programming and multithreaded applications

Native desktop application development using Objective-C and Cocoa, involving the use of Web APIs, networking, and system frameworks

Be proactive, focused, and goal-oriented

Passion for continuous learning and adapting to new technologies

Good written and spoken English

Preferred Skills

Experience in working in Agile/Scrum teams and projects

Good taste in UI design

Fluent English

Compensations and Benefits

Cogniance offers excellent benefits for the right candidates, including great working conditions, competitive salary paid according to cross-bank exchange rate, regular performance based salary reviews,extensive career development plan, professional training courses, flexible working hours, 24 days paid vacation, medical insurance, reimbursement for sport activities, game rooms with table tennis & football, shower for bicycle riders, company sponsored recreation activities (corporate outs, holiday celebrations, etc.) and the chance for international travel.

How to apply

If you are interested in this position, please send your detailed CV to

Account Manager
Boston, MA

Company Summary

Cogniance, a fast-growing Silicon Valley-based professional services software consultancy, is changing the way early-stage companies around the world turn great ideas into successful products. We act as “intelligence multiplier” to venture-funded software companies and fortune 500 companies alike by putting together high-caliber teams capable of handling complex user experience, design, and technical challenges inherent in new product development. Since its founding in 2008 Cogniance has been a key driver of success of its many clients who have gone on to secure additional funding, get acquired, launch new products and go public through an IPO.

Job Summary

Cogniance is seeking a Technical Account Manager. This role will be responsible for proactively managing the overall relationship with select East Coast clients, acting as part engineer, part customer champion, and part relationship manager. It requires a unique combination of superior client management/communication skills, technical software development knowledge and project management skills. This will be a highly visible role, where you will be the face of the company, meeting with clients spread across the Eastern US to build a world class reputation for Cogniance’s Co-Development services.

Essential Functions/Job Duties

Proactively own and manage multiple high-visibility and high-touch customer relationships throughout the East Coast

Understand short and long-term customer goals and objectives as they relate to the company and be able to communicate them to the Cogniance design and development team

Identify opportunities to drive incremental revenue growth and work with internal teams to prepare and deliver proposals supporting this

Regularly communicate with assigned account stakeholders at all levels, set expectations and negotiate priorities appropriately

Act as the local liaison to the project management, engineering and design teams, participating in client development and strategy discussions. Be the face of Cogniance for our clients, representing the high caliber team that they don’t see on a daily basis

Provide a point of escalation for managing issues, and be creative and tenacious in seeking resolutions through hands-on involvement and highly effective communication between responsible parties at the client site

Develop detailed, researched Strategic plans for the development of assigned accounts, which span short, medium and long term opportunities to grow. Work with Sales Management, Marketing and Professional Services Teams to validate and support these plans.

Knowledge, Skills and Ability Requirements

Bachelors Degree

5+ years of complex software and/or services sales experience with proven record of account management accomplishments. Will also consider a mix of sales engineer and project management experience

Senior QA Engineer
Kyiv, Ukraine

We are looking for a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join our amazing Test Team.

We do testing for:

– Startups from Bay Area

– Internet of things (connected car, smart home gateways)

– Industrial design and engineering

– Big data and cloud computing

– Context and mobile advertisement engines

While we work both with startups and sustainable high tech company’s quality is always the key to delivering the excellent end-user experience. You will get a great chance to be a part of innovative projects and see the ideas come to life. There is a broad range of things like car head units solutions, smart GPS device, software, smart home applications and advertising products that deal with large amounts of data in which you will be able to work on.

Basic scripting and coding experience in one of the programming language, ability to take over the automation testing if required

Problem solver with a positive attitude and ability to interact with the team

Optional skills

Experience with Linux/Unix based systems

Experience with automation testing tools

Experience with performance testing

Experience with automating processes

Experience in managing small QA teams

Responsibilities

Being responsible for end user product quality

Setting up test and QA procedures during product delivery

Reporting to project manager and a customer on behalf of QA team

Working closely with delivery team on all project stages

Helping set up delivery process to achieve the highest quality

Compensations and Benefits

Cogniance offers excellent benefits for the right candidates including great working conditions, competitive salary paid according to cross-bank rate, performance based salary review 2 times a year, annual bonus based on company revenue sharing program, extensive career plan, flexible working hours, 24 days paid vacation, medical insurance and the chance for international travel.

How to apply

If you are interested in this position, please send your detailed CV to

QA Engineer
Kyiv, Ukraine

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to join our amazing Test Team.

We do testing for:

– Startups from Bay Area

– Internet of things (connected car, smart home gateways)

– Industrial design and engineering

– Big data and cloud computing

– Context and mobile advertisement engines

While we work both with startups and sustainable high tech company’s quality is always the key to delivering the excellent end-user experience. You will get a great chance to be a part of innovative projects and see the ideas come to life. There is a broad range of things like car head units solutions, smart GPS device, software, smart home applications and advertising products that deal with large amounts of data in which you will be able to work on.

Provide timely testing updates as well as raise issues proactively before escalation

Design, develop and execute test cases, using automation as much as possible

Compensations and Benefits

Cogniance offers excellent benefits for the right candidates including great working conditions, competitive salary paid according to cross-bank rate, performance based salary review 2 times a year, annual bonus based on company revenue sharing program, extensive career plan, flexible working hours, 24 days paid vacation, medical insurance and the chance for international travel.

How to apply

If you are interested in this position, please send your detailed CV to

Sales support specialist
Kyiv, Ukraine

General Description

This position is mainly a communications position that performs marketing research, lead identification and prospecting functions for our clients. It will utilize your professional communication, written and verbal English skills, your research and lead qualification skills, as well as your marketing and sales skills in Branding/Marketing/Software industry.

Sales Support Specialist will locate companies across the US and Europe, identify and attempt to communicate with an appropriate decision maker in the company (usually a Marketing Director, VP, C-Level) using Social Networking tools such as Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, Meetup, Jigsaw, XING, Foursquare, Gowalla, etc. When Sales Support Specialist has identified a sales-ready lead, it gets passed along to our client.

Sales Support Specialist will use Internet resources to search, identify and communicate with the companies of interest. When the company has been identified, it is registered in the CRM system, as well as each following contact with the company. Sales Support Specialist will document the result of each email, call, and task in the CRM system.

Mandatory skills/experience

Fluent English, preferably with Received Pronunciation. Great written and verbal communication skills

Compensations and Benefits

Cogniance offers excellent benefits for the right candidates including great working conditions, competitive salary paid according to cross-bank exchange rate, regular performance based salary reviews, extensive career development plan, professional training courses, flexible working hours, 24 days paid vacation, medical insurance, reimbursement for sport activities, game rooms with table tennis & football, shower for bicycle riders, company sponsored recreation activities (corporate outs, holiday celebrations, etc) and the chance for international travel.

If you are interested in this position, please send us detailed CV to agolubeva@cogniance.com. Only successful candidates will be contacted for the interview

How to apply

If you are interested in this position, please send your detailed CV to

QA Automation
Kyiv, Ukraine

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Engineer to join our amazing Test Team.

We do testing for:

– Internet of things (connected car, smart home gateways)

– Industrial design and engineering

– Big data and cloud computing

– Context and mobile advertisement engines

While we work both with startups and sustainable high tech companies, quality is always the key to delivering an excellent end-user experience. You will get a great chance to be a part of innovative projects and see the ideas come to life. There is a broad range of things like car head units solutions, smart GPS devices, software, smart home applications and advertising products that deal with large amounts of data in which you will be able to work on.

Project

Our client is the world’s leading provider of global eCommerce solutions, shipping and mailing products. Their new innovative online shipping and mailing product is to power billions of transactions per day across US and UK markets. Solution tends to “bring post office into your home or office” and provides postage automation for end users.

You’ll become a part of a great multinational team working on launching the “live” version of the product and will be responsible for product quality and automation testing efforts.

Compensations and Benefits

Cogniance offers excellent benefits for the right candidates including great working conditions, competitive salary paid according to cross-bank rate, performance based salary review 2 times a year, annual bonus based on company revenue sharing program, extensive career plan, flexible working hours, 24 days paid vacation, medical insurance and opportunity of business trips.

If you are interested in this position, please send us detailed CV to cv@cogniance.com with “Automation QA” in the subject line. Only successful candidates will be contacted.

How to apply

If you are interested in this position, please send your detailed CV to

Senior iOS Engineer
Wroclaw, Poland

If you know what does the good application mean. If you know how beautiful code should look like. If you like to explore new technologies. If you want to deliver products that will be distributed around the world. If you want to work in the team of A-graders – send us your CV.

You will be responsible for the entire product development or its significant part. You will communicate with the customer, determine the product functionality, define the architecture and estimate the overall work. You will be Scrum Master for your team and take part in presales activities inside Cogniance.

We Expect

At least 3 years of iOS experience, 5 years of Objective-C development

Project Manager
Wroclaw, Poland

We’re looking for a proactive and result-oriented Project Manager to ‘own’ end-to-end cross-functional workflow from the time the contract is signed and the engagement commences till successful delivery. This is a highly visible role which spans multiple global touch-points including customers, delivery team (engineering, QA, UI, network operations) and account management.

Skills and Qualifications

Project Management experience, ideally Web and Mobile projects

Experience in agile development methodologies

Leadership and team motivation skills, decision making

Ability to guide others through complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty

Compensations and Benefits

Cogniance offers excellent benefits for the right candidates including great working conditions, competitive salary, regular performance based salary reviews, extensive career development plan, flexible working hours, medical insurance, and the chance for international travel.

How to apply

If you are interested in this position, please send your detailed CV to

Senior iOS Engineer
Kyiv, Ukraine

If you know what does the good application mean. If you know how beautiful code should look like. If you like to explore new technologies. If you want to deliver products that will be distributed around the world. If you want to work in the team of A-graders – send us your CV.

You will be responsible for the entire product development or its significant part. You will communicate with the customer, determine the product functionality, define the architecture and estimate the overall work. You will be Scrum Master for your team and take part in presales activities inside Cogniance.

We Expect

At least 3 years of iOS experience, 5 years of Objective-C development

Product Manager
Kyiv, Ukraine

About CloudMade

CloudMade is the catalyst of change in the connected car industry. For decades cars have served the same purposes with the same interaction models and same business models. Now all of that is changing. The new era of connected cars is challenging and re-shaping an industry. From electric vehicles to car sharing to on-demand taxis, multi-modal transportation and self learning cars, CloudMade’s products are at the centre of a new type of mobility.

Our products enable a vast number of connected car use cases ranging from personalized search, to chassis customization to mobility apps to radically re-thought navigation. For too long the driver has been expected to learn how to use the car. We’ve flipped that idea on its head. Using CloudMade’s software the connected car learns about the driver, customizing every imaginable aspect of the car experience – from the tires to the screens in the cabin.

CloudMade’s leadership team is made up of industry veterans with startup and corporate successes behind them at companies like Psion, Microsoft, Macromedia, Oracle, Libratone, Harman-Kardon. We have offices in Menlo Park (California), Munich and Stuttgart (Germany), London (UK) and Kyiv (Ukraine).

About The Role

Product Managers are responsible for the success of CloudMade’s customer applications, from proof of concept through to development. The Product Manager leads the product vision, working with a multi-disciplinary team of CloudMade designers, engineers, data scientists and sales as well as a customer team drawn from many automotive disciplines. It is the product manager’s job to establish a product vision and see that carried through the sales, design and delivery processes, engaging with the customer and reporting into CloudMade’s management team along the way.

About You

You are passionate about products with an insatiable appetite for perfection

You are the champion of great user experience and let nothing stand in-between you and a product that delights users

You are commercially minded and have a strong sense of the use cases and business models that lead to commercial success

You are a great communicator – with customers, with executives, with internal design and engineering teams

You are process oriented and exceptionally well organized

You thrive in a busy working environment

Your Experience

Experience engaging with customers at senior levels

Experience working with sales teams to sell the product vision

Experience reporting into senior management in your own organization

Experience of current product management processes and tools

Experience building consumer facing applications

Compensations and Benefits

Cogniance offers excellent benefits for the right candidates including great working conditions, competitive salary paid according to cross-bank exchange rate, regular performance based salary reviews,extensive career development plan, professional training courses, flexible working hours, 24 days paid vacation, medical insurance, reimbursement for sport activities, game rooms with table tennis & football, company sponsored recreation activities (corporate outs, holiday celebrations, etc) and the chance for international travel.

How to apply

If you are interested in this position, please send your detailed CV to

Solution Architect
Kyiv, Ukraine

We are looking for a software/solutions architect to join our Architecture Team. If you know how to solve customer problems in most effective way, able promoting your solution and discussing on every aspect of software development; if you fond of exploring new things, know the latest trends in software development, libraries, tools, hardware; if you spend a lot of your time time learning new technologies and approaches and then share this knowledge with your peers; – join us and let’s explore the new horizons of exciting tech world! You will be working with startup community helping to co-create a product blue print from both tech and business perspective. You will be an advisor for established companies in bringing their products to the latest trends and user needs.

Responsibilities

As part of Technology Solutions Centers, work closely with Cogniance CTO, marketing and technology teams to:

Explore and identify important technology trends which may create significant opportunities for Cogniance business

Lead one of key areas of Cogniance technology expertise, develop it as an end-to-end technology solutions center and work closely together with Cogniance marketing and sales teams on promoting business based on technology solutions center

Become the expert and key advisor of one of the Technology Solution Centers

As part of Service Delivery, take part in development and research projects through:

Architecture and processes reviews and definition

Software design and code reviews

Participation in billable projects as a Lead Architect/Technical expert

As part of Technical Sales Development, work closely with prospective clients and Cogniance sales team on one side and different sub-teams within Cogniance delivery organization on the other side on:

Communicating with prospective clients to understand their needs, expectations, goals and constraints

Advising and consulting both prospective clients and our sales team on our service and solutions capabilities, focused on meeting client needs and their expectations

Develop architectures according to the client’s needs, define scope and provide estimates.

Overall, Solutions Architect is expected to be a versatile contributor, capable of delivering value on any of the three areas described above

We require:

Experience

5+ years in software development industry, including 2+ years of architecture/tech lead/engineering management roles

Senior Embedded Engineer
Kyiv, Ukraine

Whom we work with

Our client is world’s largest roof-top windows manufacturer. Their HQ is in Denmark where they have about several square kilometers of office spaces and factories just in a single location. Advanced NASA-style test facilities for RF equipment and home automation electronics. Overall they’re very serious about electronics and embedded systems development.

What is the product

The client offers an automated smart-home solution that enables customers to control window, blinds and shutters with tiny remote device and allows to establish automated scheduled routines: program regular airings, shut the windows when it starts raining or the temperature changes, periodically shut/open the blinds while you’re on vacation to keep the burglars out etc.

What’s the Cogniance’s part

The client is looking for software development partner to work on a long-term basis on a number of innovative initiatives, including:

Implementing a new web application and UX/UI design for the administration interface of their new product

Integrating a new Wi-Fi module for their new product to host a compact web server running the web UI application.

Defining a strategically important UX framework to be used across existing and future products

Architecting and implementation of remote FW upgrade features for new product and potentially the rest of devices in client’s wireless network at home.

Research, design, implementation and support of cloud infrastructure and services for device management needs

What is in it for you

Opportunity to take part in the new internet-of-things project

Opportunity to contribute to the product that will actually be used worldwide (and the product is something one can actually touch, not just another application)

Chance to enter a fancy world of Embedded solutions

Requirements

At least 4+ years of SW engineering experience in the area of Embedded systems

Knowledge of cross-platform development, Linux kernel and driver development

Compensations and Benefits

Cogniance offers excellent benefits for the right candidates including great working conditions, competitive salary paid according to cross-bank rate, performance based salary review 2 times a year, annual bonus based on company revenue sharing program, extensive career plan, flexible working hours, 24 days paid vacation, medical insurance and opportunity of business trips.

If you are interested in this position, please send us detailed CV to cv@cogniance.com with: “Embedded Engineer” in the subject line. Only successful candidates will be contacted for the interview.

How to apply

If you are interested in this position, please send your detailed CV to

IT Recruiter
Kyiv, Ukraine

Cogniance is a great place to work. If you you feel engaged by a start-up spirit and want to be a responsible in finding great candidates and helping them envision life at Cogniance – we will be right place for you.

Our Recruiting Team is looking for someone who loves finding great talent, working with candidates, partnering closely with hiring managers, and is passionate about being a partner to the business. This is an ideal role for a recruiter who really wants to make an impact and grow with a great company.

If you are open-minded, goal-oriented and flexible specialist who likes facing new challenges please join us!

Responsibilities

Collaborate with teams to deeply understand hiring needs

Develop unique full cycle hiring strategies and interview criteria for each role

Senior UX Designer
Aarhus, Denmark

We’re looking for a Senior UX Designer that has the experience and capabilities to design connected product experiences that pushes the limits of innovation and puts the user in focus.

Based in our Aarhus design studio, you will join a diverse and dynamic team of designers that work across physical and digital product domains. Your global team of colleagues includes software and hardware technologists — together you will be tasked with creating industry-defining products.

We offer the opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing product development firm with roots in Silicon Valley, and to work on challenging projects for global startup and Fortune 500 customers.

Sales Executive
Menlo Park, CA

We’re looking for an energetic, empathetic, and execution-oriented Sales Executive, who is experienced with, and passionate about, the newest technology trends. We expect you to be an up-to-date technology enthusiast that can empathize with the product development challenges that startups and innovation-driven corporations in the software and hardware spaces are facing. You should ideally have experience with either selling or delivering technology/consulting services, and feel passionate about working with client and internal stakeholders to shape a deal that meets the client’s needs and leverages our unique value proposition.

Sales Executives at Cogniance are expected to manage and excel in all phases of the sales cycle:

Generate leads from industry and networking events, and work with our marketing team to ensure the appropriate field support

Identify and prioritize opportunities, and collaborate with our presales team to define and close deals

Manage client relationships, and will work closely with project managers to ensure client satisfaction and to develop additional business

Key Responsibilities:

Own your sales funnel, ensuring that enough leads are touched at the top and managed through each stage of the funnel to become deals and repeat customers

Spend significant portion of time in the field, developing and leveraging relationships through personal meetings, presentations, networking, speaking engagements, or social outings

Identify specific sales opportunities within existing and prospective clients. Work with client and Cogniance teams to determine requirements and specifications, build client value proposition, and shape and close the deal

Manage and develop client relationships. Work closely with project managers to ensure service delivery is satisfactory, explore new business opportunities within the account, and maintain project profitability targets

Skills & Experience

5+ years of sales/business development experience, preferably with some technology/consulting services experience (selling or delivering)

Experience with software platforms and technologies (web, mobile, cloud, embedded), and an early adopter mindset with passion for latest technology trends, apps, gadgets, and companies

Exposure to the technology startup and corporate innovation ecosystems, either through direct employment, client relationships, or personal network

Demonstrated capability to manage all phases of sales process, from lead generation to closing deals to developing client relationships

Proven ability to close deals and meet quota objectives — we expect you to provide details of quota achievements

Project Manager
Kyiv, Ukraine

General Description

Building on an impeccable track record, Cogniance has become the de-facto partner for start-ups and corporate innovation labs in the world’s tech hubs.

Turning great ideas into successful, mass-impact products takes a special kind of professionals. We hire the top 5% caliber crew members capable of handling complex user experience, design, and technical challenges inherent in new product development.

What we offer to our crew members is our keen attention to their long-term career progression through careful career planning, line management, mentorship, and coaching.

We’re looking for a proactive and result-oriented Project Manager to ‘own’ end-to-end cross-functional workflow from the time the contract is signed and the engagement commences till successful delivery. This is a highly visible role which spans multiple global touch-points including customers, delivery team (engineering, QA, UI, network operations) and account management.

Skills and Qualifications

Project Management experience, ideally Web and Mobile projects

Experience in agile development methodologies

Leadership and team motivation skills, decision making

Ability to guide others through complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty

Educational requirements

MS/BS degree in Computing Sciences or equivalent is preferred. Credit will be given for candidates who do not have relevant degrees but can demonstrate equivalent work experience.

Compensations and Benefits

Cogniance offers excellent benefits for the right candidates including great working conditions, competitive salary paid according to cross-bank exchange rate, regular performance based salary reviews,extensive career development plan, professional training courses, flexible working hours, 24 days paid vacation, medical insurance, reimbursement for sport activities, game rooms with table tennis & football, company sponsored recreation activities (corporate outs, holiday celebrations, etc) and the chance for international travel.

How to apply

If you are interested in this position, please send your detailed CV to

Senior Interaction Designer
Aarhus, Denmark

We’re looking for a Senior Interaction Designer that has the experience and capabilities to design connected product experiences that pushes the limits of innovation and puts the user in focus.

Based in our Aarhus design studio, you will join a diverse and dynamic team of designers that work across physical and digital product domains. Your global team of colleagues includes software and hardware technologists — together you will be tasked with creating industry-defining products.

We offer the opportunity to be part of a rapidly growing product development firm with roots in Silicon Valley, and to work on challenging projects for global startup and Fortune 500 customers.

Skills & Experience

Passion for creating technology products the users enjoy interacting with

Sales Executive
Detroit, MI

General Description

We’re looking for an energetic, empathetic, and execution-oriented Sales Executive, who is experienced with, and passionate about, the newest technology trends. We expect you to be an up-to-date technology enthusiast that can empathize with the product development challenges that startups and innovation-driven corporations in the software and hardware spaces are facing. You should ideally have experience with either selling or delivering technology/consulting services, and feel passionate about working with client and internal stakeholders to shape a deal that meets the client’s needs and leverages our unique value proposition.

In this role, you will be responsible for driving business growth in the Automotive segment, by leveraging our unique expertise in delivering connected car innovations, and leveraging your network of stakeholders and decision makers at OEMs and Tier 1 suppliers.

Sales Executives at Cogniance are expected to manage and excel in all phases of the sales cycle:

Generate leads from industry and networking events, and work with our marketing team to ensure the appropriate field support

Identify and prioritize opportunities, and collaborate with our presales team to define and close deals

Manage client relationships, and will work closely with project managers to ensure client satisfaction and to develop additional business

Key Responsibilities:

Own your sales funnel, ensuring that enough leads are touched at the top and managed through each stage of the funnel to become deals and repeat customers

Spend significant portion of time in the field, developing and leveraging relationships through personal meetings, presentations, networking, speaking engagements, or social outings

Identify specific sales opportunities within existing and prospective clients. Work with client and Cogniance teams to determine requirements and specifications, build client value proposition, and shape and close the deal

Manage and develop client relationships. Work closely with project managers to ensure service delivery is satisfactory, explore new business opportunities within the account, and maintain project profitability targets

Skills & Experience

8+ years of sales/business development experience, preferably with some technology/consulting services experience (selling or delivering)

Significant portion of career spent working in/with automotive industry

Experience with software platforms and technologies (web, mobile, cloud, embedded), and an early adopter mindset with passion for latest technology trends, apps, gadgets, and companies

Exposure to the technology startup and corporate innovation ecosystems, either through direct employment, client relationships, or personal network

Demonstrated capability to manage all phases of sales process, from lead generation to closing deals to developing client relationships

Proven ability to close deals and meet quota objectives — we expect you to provide details of quota achievements

Business Intelligence Analyst
Menlo Park, CA

Job Summary

Cogniance is looking for a results-oriented Business Intelligence Analyst who is able to manage and develop competitive market strategies for some of the world’s most innovative early-stage companies, as Cogniance co-creates software to bring new Web 2.0 and mobile services to market.